The new space telescope shows the aurora borealis of Jupiter, small moons

Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) – The world’s newest and largest space telescope displays Jupiter like never before, the aurora borealis and everything.

On Monday, scientists released footage of the largest planet in the solar system.

James Webb Space Telescope Taken in July, the images captured unprecedented views of Jupiter’s northern and southern lights, and the vortex of polar fog. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a storm large enough to swallow the Earth, stands out brightly alongside countless smaller storms.

One of the wide-field images is particularly exciting, as it shows the faint rings around the planet, as well as two small moons against a shimmering background of galaxies.

“We’ve never seen a Jupiter like this before. It’s totally unbelievable,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.

“We didn’t really expect it to be this good,” she added in a statement.

The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, according to the French-American research team, to highlight the features.

The NASA and European Space Agency rocket, which will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope, has been launched with a value of $ 10 billion At the end of last year he was watching the universe In the infrared since summer. Scientists hope to look at the dawning of the universe through Webb, looking back to the time when the first stars and galaxies were 13.7 billion years ago.

The observatory is located a million miles away (1.6 million km) from Earth.

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